e job done
faster and smoother, allowing for more time to be spend for example looking
for parts in friends' basements.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 11:58 AM, wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 2017-11-04, 11:41, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There some ba
ways I
never had before and I received extensive help from the community
especially Jack, Eric as well as others so this whole ordeal is holding
some of my retro projects back.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Dim
Hi,
Jack's drivers are required on a number of dos-era systems else FreeDOS
will not even install/boot. Being unable to use FreeDOS is annoying but a
working system is needed and the wishes of the owners of the respective
intellectual property have to be respected.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Fri, Nov
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Hi,
I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools like
rawrite3
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Hi,
Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything
installed
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Thank you for your replies. I think I must had the wrong cd inserted,
because now I
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Hi,
I did a full freedos 1.2 installation but not all archivers were installed
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Ok thanks. Would be awesome to have an option to get them installed.
Cheers
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Hi,
I had some more time to spend on this project today. I reinstalled Freedos
on a
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Hi,
After lots of testing and lots of help from Jack Ellis and Eric, I was able
more
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Hi,
Hi,
Thank you for your reply. Hardware is a year 1995 486-DX4 100, hardly
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Hi,
rawrite1 also works. Problem is tools from maxtor/western digital/seagate
etc
or the help!
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:51 PM, TJ Edmister
wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:57:35 -0400, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
>
> > The issue I am facing now is that the mechanical drives I connected to
> > the
> > secondary IDE channel o
RAM. Since they are executables around 1.44 MB
I suspect they are just too big for LH to work with them.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> rawrite1 also works. Problem is tools from maxtor/western digital/seagate
> etc appear t
Hi,
rawrite1 also works. Problem is tools from maxtor/western digital/seagate
etc appear to be based around some hard wired version of rawrite3, which
prevents these tools from being able to create their bootdisks under
freedos.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
Thank you for your reply. Hardware is a year 1995 486-DX4 100, hardly
remarkable at its time.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote:
> > I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools
> > like rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tool
Hi,
I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools like
rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tools floppy creation software. I need
to boot from Windows 98 bootdisk to get rid of it.
Please let me know if there is a way to get rid of this problem under
FreeDOS.
Cheers,
Dimit
Thank you for your replies. I think I must had the wrong cd inserted,
because now I can see all the packages as expected. Sorry for the confusion!
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
an browse
> through and select packages to be installed. Similar to using some Linux
> package browsing systems like Yast. FDIMPLES does not do networking at
> present. So, you will need to have you CD inserted.
>
> Jerome
>
> On Aug 16, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wr
Ok thanks. Would be awesome to have an option to get them installed.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did a full freedos
Hi,
I did a full freedos 1.2 installation but not all archivers were installed.
While I got them from the CD eventually from the ARCHIVERS directory I was
wondering if that is supposed to happen.
Best regards,
Dimitris
-
:31 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> I have tried the /FORCE:CHS and it did not help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitris
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Dimitris,
>>
>> > I retried sys c: from the 2031 b
Hi Eric,
I have tried the /FORCE:CHS and it did not help.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Dimitris,
>
> > I retried sys c: from the 2031 bootdisk and it failed to boot, hanging at
> > Loading FreeDOS, hard drive working like mad, I rebooted with the s
. Shidel Jr.
wrote:
>
> On Jul 20, 2016, at 5:23 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 20, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
>> wrote:
>> […]
>>
>> Dimit
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:56 PM, wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2016 12:57 PM, "Dimitris Zilaskos" wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
>
> >
> > Since I now have a bootable C: drive, can't we just compare the working
> MBR/boot sector with the non worki
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
> […]
>
> Dimitris
>
>
> I have a few silly questions.
>
> You have verified the drive has the correct jumpers set?
>
Correct, master /
Hi
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Dimitris,
>
> > So I did, with sys 3.6e - FreeDOS 1.2 pre floppy:
> >
> > sys c: /FORCE:CHS - system hangs on reboot
> > sys c: /FORCE:LBA , followed by sys CONFIG c:\kernel.sys FORCELBA=1
> > GLOBALENABLELBA=1
> >
> > - system tries to
Hi,
I have tried sys 2.6 with 2042, I checked and sys CONFIG reported both
FORCELBA and GLOBALENABLELBA were set to 0. Reboot resuts in a hang at
Loading FreeDOS, hard drive and the floppy leds are lit up and hard drive
works like mad.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Dimitris
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Dimitris,
>
> long analysis follows, some suggestions at the bottom of this mail :-)
>
> > Thank you for your reply. I tried few kernel and here are the results:
>
> I gather you mean "you tried the SYS of a few kernels together with
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:04 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
> >
> > I have LBA configured in the BIOS for the hard drives, mostly because it
> > keeps BIOS boot and Windows 98 working.
Hi,
With /X and /NOABOVE16 there is no gibberish but a hang. The last message
HimemX prints is KBC A20 method used.
btmgr was a pain to install - does not compile on the Debian 8 system which
is the only other system I have with working floppy drive. I did not try to
install the rpm but what work
x27;s geometry is 100% correct in
> > your BIOS?
> >
> > Mateusz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 19/07/2016 07:12, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I was able to reinstall and boot successfully by performing an fdisk
> >&
you describe vaguely look
> like a problem I had in some distant past, when I misconfigured my HDD
> in the BIOS.
>
> Perhaps you could check whether your drive's geometry is 100% correct in
> your BIOS?
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
>
> On 19/07/2016 07:12, Dimitris Z
, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thank you for following up. fdisk reports tha
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for following up. fdisk reports that C: drive is already
> active. I
> > did run mbrzap it completed successfully but the
On Jul 18, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
>
> Dear Jerome,
>
> From what I can tell I never get past the boot loader to be struck by
> himemx.
>
>
> Ok try this:
>
> Boot your modified FDI floppy.
> It should detect FreeDOS has been already inst
ers. Second, after installing FreeDOS
> to C: drive, run the command `fdisk /MBR:80`.
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
> > Thank you all for your suggestions. What I have tried so far:
> >
> >* Getting rid of himemx: this wo
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Dimitris,
>
> > * Getting rid of himemx: this works ...
>
> But very slow and lots of floppy access: I assume you booted from
> floppy because the BIOS does not support CD boot and the CD also
> needs to be some ancient model connecte
entence structures, grammatical errors
> and incorrect spell-corrected words.
>
> On Jul 18, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
>
> Thank you all for your suggestions. What I have tried so far:
>
>* Getting rid of himemx: this works - the boot process continues and
&
e.net/projects/xosl-ow/files/xosl-ow116/BootMedia/BootFloppy/
> and see if you have clean drive access.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the followup. Hitting F8 reveals HIMEMX tr
can try - I will recheck the floppies for starters
in case they went bad and check the rest of your suggestions.
Best regards,
Dimitris
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> wrote:
>
> I have tried it
Re-sending this as the attachment is caught up in moderation.
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From: Dimitris Zilaskos
Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486
To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." <
Hi,
I am trying to install FreeDOS on my old 486. Version 1.0 will boot from
floppy (only with himem, emm3886 with crash), detect CDROM drive (only if
connected on Vesa Local bus controller, not on SB16 IDE - tertiary ide IDE
channel) , and install happily. However upon reboot it just hangs , with
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